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walktalker · 12-10-01, 05:24 PM

Former Mobster Takes A Hit In Domain-Name Dispute
Some 4,500 arguments over the rights to Internet addresses have wound up in a dispute-resolution process established by domain-name authorities nearly two years ago. And of the 4,500 stories behind those spats, the oddest of all - until this week - was the story of pro golfer Skip Kendall and the one-page Web site operated by his sister's husband. But, this week, the tale of how the pro golfer who has won more than $500,000 on the PGA tour this year is alleged to have stiffed for $10,000 his own sister - who then complained about it at SkipKendall.com - had to take a back seat to the one about the two New York mobsters who moved to Georgia, found religion, and then accused each other of stealing either, a) the other guy's domain name, or b) the other guy's life story.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/171099.html

New Service May Open Net As Promotional Avenue For Music
Internet media-delivery company RealNetworks today unveiled a new service designed to allow content owners to distribute promotional samples of music on the Web. The Real Broadcast Network (RBN), RealNetworks' content delivery network division, says the "Track Promo Service" is built on the RealSystem Media Commerce Suite, which is used for digital rights management by the company's MusicNet service. Jenny Sorensen, a RealNetworks spokeswoman, said the content owner can control the way users are able to access the songs they want to promote.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/171097.html

Allegedly Hacked Bank Denies Bin Laden Connection
A Sudanese bank that allegedly was hacked by anti-terrorist vigilantes denied that Osama bin Laden was ever a founder or shareholder of the bank and said accounts connected to the terrorist leader were closed several years ago. According to a statement entitled "Who Owns Al Shamal Islamic Bank" and posted on the bank's Web site, bin Laden was not among a small group that invested $20-million in 1983 to establish the bank, which opened in 1990. Nor is bin Laden among the 13 Saudi and Sudanese individuals and organizations listed as the bank's main shareholders, according to the statement from Mohamed S. Mohamed, general manager of the bank.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/171091.html

Alleged Jihad Internet Terrorist Pleads Not Guilty
A 43-year-old London chef and operator of a "Jihad" Web site has pleaded not guilty to two charges under the British Terrorism Act. Sulayman Balal Zainulabidin was originally arrested on Oct. 5, the same day that the Sakina Securities Web site. Scotland Yard's press office says that Zainulabidin appeared at Belmarsh magistrates court this morning, where he was charged under Sections 54(1) and 54(3) of U.K.'s Terrorism Act. He is in custody until his next appearance on Nov. 9, a police spokesperson said, adding that Zainulabidin has additionally been accused of offering training in terrorist activities.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/171085.html

Napster Claims Antitrust Violations By Record Companies
Perhaps testifying that the best defense is a good offense, lawyers defending Napster are attempting a dramatic turn-about in their battle with record companies who say the music- sharing company has contributed to copyright infringement on a massive scale. Although Napster tried out a variety of arguments in a crucial federal-court hearing this week, reports suggest that among those not quickly dismissed by Judge Marilyn Hall Patel was a claim that new online music-distribution services backed by the record companies amount to a monopoly that is at least as dangerous to the marketplace as Napster's peer-to-peer network.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/171082.html

RIAA: Piracy Seizures, Arrests Way Up
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) says that its anti-piracy efforts in the first half of the year led to record numbers for seizures, arrests, and convictions, Billboard Bulletin reports. The trade group assisted in seizing 1.26 million illegal recordable CDs (CD-Rs) in the first six months of 2001, up 133% from the first half of 2000. It also aided in 1,762 arrests and indictments for selling illegal CDs or CD-Rs, an 89% increase. Online anti-piracy efforts also were stepped up in the first half, as 8,716 online auctions offering illicit recordings were removed from Web sites, a 418% increase from mid-year 2000. However, the number of notices sent to Internet service providers about infringing sites was down from the same period last year.
http://www.billboard.com/billboard/d...ent_id=1076156

Food convoys returning to Afghanistan
UN food aid shipments into Afghanistan are increasing, with almost 100 trucks currently ferrying in aid from neighbouring countries - but deliveries will still fall way short of the target for October. The World Food Programme had suspended all ground-based deliveries of food on Sunday, following the first missile strikes on Afghanistan. This was because truck drivers refused to enter the country. "But when a convoy that was already on its way to Kabul got there safely and returned with no harm, they agreed to go back," says WFP spokeswoman Christiane Berthiaume. Convoys from Pakistan, Iran, Turkmenistan and Tajikistan resumed from Tuesday.
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99991425

Why the U.S. is losing the propaganda war
Even as a deluge of bombs dropped on strategic targets inside Afghanistan this week, American forces simultaneously strove to win over the hearts and minds of the beleaguered Afghan population. In addition to cluster bombs and cruise missiles, a barrage of food packets, explanatory leaflets and portable windup radios that pick up only one frequency, broadcast by the U.S. military, showered down. It's difficult to tell whether the humanitarian aid is having any impact, although so far there has been little word of widespread anti-American uprisings among Afghans themselves, while far more hostile demonstrations are taking place across the border in Pakistan.
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/20...nda/index.html

A thousand and one e-mails
In July 2001, the Taliban banned the use of the Internet by Afghan citizens. "We are not against the use of the Internet, but we are against the broadcast of obscene and immoral material, and material on the Internet that is against Islam," said Taliban foreign minister Maulvi Wakil Ahmad Muttawakil in a statement. By late August, the Taliban added computer disks to a growing list of official "un-Islamic" products, including nail polish, neckties and wigs made out of human hair. Border officials were to confiscate contraband disks and turn them over to the Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice. Twenty-six million people with one lousy Internet connection?
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/20...net/index.html

Arafat's bin Laden nightmare
When Palestinian security forces fired on Palestinian demonstrators brandishing portraits of Osama bin Laden on Columbus Day, it was a clear signal to American policy makers, who have long assumed that Yasser Arafat's basic attitude towards the radical factions of the Palestinian constituency was to turn a blind eye. Although the Palestinian leader opposes the fundamentalist fanatics of Hamas and Hezbollah, he is also a shrewd opportunist, and he was loathe to undermine his popularity within Palestinian ranks by attacking these powerful groups or their supporters directly -- until now. Bin Laden, that horrifically effective spearhead of pan-Arab resentment, could well turn out to be the gravest challenge to Arafat's particular brand of pragmatic nationalism.
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/20.../index_np.html

Baseball warms up to technology
When Aaron Sele of the Seattle Mariners takes the mound in Cleveland Saturday, the hometown Indians will be licking their chops. Back in August, they rang him up for eight hits, five runs and two homers in a dramatic comeback win. How did the Indians manage to master Mr. Sele? It was easy. They cloned him. With the 2001 playoffs under way, many of the teams still in the chase for the World Series are quietly warming up to technology.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/641946.asp?0dm=C14RT

The world will end tomorrow - official
US inboxes have recently been infected with various strains of the 'Klingerman virus' email. It warns people not to open any blue envelope they get from 'The Klingerman Foundation'. If you do, you're dead - inside is a sponge saturated with an unknown, killer virus. Laughable nonsense, or is it? Sadly, it's the very scale and scope of the net - it's great strength - which makes it the ideal platform for the rapid dissemination of disinformation and conspiracy hysteria. And for every hoaxer there are a thousand gullible people willing to believe.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/28/22200.html

All right -- good weekend everyone !!!

12-10-01, 05:24 PM	#3
walktalker The local newspaper man Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: Montreal Posts: 2,036	Former Mobster Takes A Hit In Domain-Name Dispute Some 4,500 arguments over the rights to Internet addresses have wound up in a dispute-resolution process established by domain-name authorities nearly two years ago. And of the 4,500 stories behind those spats, the oddest of all - until this week - was the story of pro golfer Skip Kendall and the one-page Web site operated by his sister's husband. But, this week, the tale of how the pro golfer who has won more than $500,000 on the PGA tour this year is alleged to have stiffed for $10,000 his own sister - who then complained about it at SkipKendall.com - had to take a back seat to the one about the two New York mobsters who moved to Georgia, found religion, and then accused each other of stealing either, a) the other guy's domain name, or b) the other guy's life story. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/171099.html New Service May Open Net As Promotional Avenue For Music Internet media-delivery company RealNetworks today unveiled a new service designed to allow content owners to distribute promotional samples of music on the Web. The Real Broadcast Network (RBN), RealNetworks' content delivery network division, says the "Track Promo Service" is built on the RealSystem Media Commerce Suite, which is used for digital rights management by the company's MusicNet service. Jenny Sorensen, a RealNetworks spokeswoman, said the content owner can control the way users are able to access the songs they want to promote. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/171097.html Allegedly Hacked Bank Denies Bin Laden Connection A Sudanese bank that allegedly was hacked by anti-terrorist vigilantes denied that Osama bin Laden was ever a founder or shareholder of the bank and said accounts connected to the terrorist leader were closed several years ago. According to a statement entitled "Who Owns Al Shamal Islamic Bank" and posted on the bank's Web site, bin Laden was not among a small group that invested $20-million in 1983 to establish the bank, which opened in 1990. Nor is bin Laden among the 13 Saudi and Sudanese individuals and organizations listed as the bank's main shareholders, according to the statement from Mohamed S. Mohamed, general manager of the bank. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/171091.html Alleged Jihad Internet Terrorist Pleads Not Guilty A 43-year-old London chef and operator of a "Jihad" Web site has pleaded not guilty to two charges under the British Terrorism Act. Sulayman Balal Zainulabidin was originally arrested on Oct. 5, the same day that the Sakina Securities Web site. Scotland Yard's press office says that Zainulabidin appeared at Belmarsh magistrates court this morning, where he was charged under Sections 54(1) and 54(3) of U.K.'s Terrorism Act. He is in custody until his next appearance on Nov. 9, a police spokesperson said, adding that Zainulabidin has additionally been accused of offering training in terrorist activities. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/171085.html Napster Claims Antitrust Violations By Record Companies Perhaps testifying that the best defense is a good offense, lawyers defending Napster are attempting a dramatic turn-about in their battle with record companies who say the music- sharing company has contributed to copyright infringement on a massive scale. Although Napster tried out a variety of arguments in a crucial federal-court hearing this week, reports suggest that among those not quickly dismissed by Judge Marilyn Hall Patel was a claim that new online music-distribution services backed by the record companies amount to a monopoly that is at least as dangerous to the marketplace as Napster's peer-to-peer network. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/171082.html RIAA: Piracy Seizures, Arrests Way Up The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) says that its anti-piracy efforts in the first half of the year led to record numbers for seizures, arrests, and convictions, Billboard Bulletin reports. The trade group assisted in seizing 1.26 million illegal recordable CDs (CD-Rs) in the first six months of 2001, up 133% from the first half of 2000. It also aided in 1,762 arrests and indictments for selling illegal CDs or CD-Rs, an 89% increase. Online anti-piracy efforts also were stepped up in the first half, as 8,716 online auctions offering illicit recordings were removed from Web sites, a 418% increase from mid-year 2000. However, the number of notices sent to Internet service providers about infringing sites was down from the same period last year. http://www.billboard.com/billboard/d...ent_id=1076156 Food convoys returning to Afghanistan UN food aid shipments into Afghanistan are increasing, with almost 100 trucks currently ferrying in aid from neighbouring countries - but deliveries will still fall way short of the target for October. The World Food Programme had suspended all ground-based deliveries of food on Sunday, following the first missile strikes on Afghanistan. This was because truck drivers refused to enter the country. "But when a convoy that was already on its way to Kabul got there safely and returned with no harm, they agreed to go back," says WFP spokeswoman Christiane Berthiaume. Convoys from Pakistan, Iran, Turkmenistan and Tajikistan resumed from Tuesday. http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99991425 Why the U.S. is losing the propaganda war Even as a deluge of bombs dropped on strategic targets inside Afghanistan this week, American forces simultaneously strove to win over the hearts and minds of the beleaguered Afghan population. In addition to cluster bombs and cruise missiles, a barrage of food packets, explanatory leaflets and portable windup radios that pick up only one frequency, broadcast by the U.S. military, showered down. It's difficult to tell whether the humanitarian aid is having any impact, although so far there has been little word of widespread anti-American uprisings among Afghans themselves, while far more hostile demonstrations are taking place across the border in Pakistan. http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/20...nda/index.html A thousand and one e-mails In July 2001, the Taliban banned the use of the Internet by Afghan citizens. "We are not against the use of the Internet, but we are against the broadcast of obscene and immoral material, and material on the Internet that is against Islam," said Taliban foreign minister Maulvi Wakil Ahmad Muttawakil in a statement. By late August, the Taliban added computer disks to a growing list of official "un-Islamic" products, including nail polish, neckties and wigs made out of human hair. Border officials were to confiscate contraband disks and turn them over to the Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice. Twenty-six million people with one lousy Internet connection? http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/20...net/index.html Arafat's bin Laden nightmare When Palestinian security forces fired on Palestinian demonstrators brandishing portraits of Osama bin Laden on Columbus Day, it was a clear signal to American policy makers, who have long assumed that Yasser Arafat's basic attitude towards the radical factions of the Palestinian constituency was to turn a blind eye. Although the Palestinian leader opposes the fundamentalist fanatics of Hamas and Hezbollah, he is also a shrewd opportunist, and he was loathe to undermine his popularity within Palestinian ranks by attacking these powerful groups or their supporters directly -- until now. Bin Laden, that horrifically effective spearhead of pan-Arab resentment, could well turn out to be the gravest challenge to Arafat's particular brand of pragmatic nationalism. http://www.salon.com/news/feature/20.../index_np.html Baseball warms up to technology When Aaron Sele of the Seattle Mariners takes the mound in Cleveland Saturday, the hometown Indians will be licking their chops. Back in August, they rang him up for eight hits, five runs and two homers in a dramatic comeback win. How did the Indians manage to master Mr. Sele? It was easy. They cloned him. With the 2001 playoffs under way, many of the teams still in the chase for the World Series are quietly warming up to technology. http://www.msnbc.com/news/641946.asp?0dm=C14RT The world will end tomorrow - official US inboxes have recently been infected with various strains of the 'Klingerman virus' email. It warns people not to open any blue envelope they get from 'The Klingerman Foundation'. If you do, you're dead - inside is a sponge saturated with an unknown, killer virus. Laughable nonsense, or is it? Sadly, it's the very scale and scope of the net - it's great strength - which makes it the ideal platform for the rapid dissemination of disinformation and conspiracy hysteria. And for every hoaxer there are a thousand gullible people willing to believe. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/28/22200.html All right -- good weekend everyone !!! __________________ This post was sponsored by Netcoco, who wants cookies, cookies, cookies and, you guessed it, more cookies